Snowy Fun

Snowy Fun!

Today is the fourth calamity day of the year for our school system.  My twins were bored, Nick’s been off school for two weeks now recovering from surgery on his ear and was really looking forward to going back to school.  So, since we had all this snow, they decided to start a snow shoveling business.  Using my snow shovel of course!  They asked the lady that lives across the street if she’d like them to shovel her driveway.  Since she already had half the drive shoveled, she offered them five dollars to finish.  She paid them ahead of time and I must say I was mightily impressed when they brought the money back home (before starting) and told me that they planned to use the money to reinvest in their business by buying an additional shovel… how cool is that?  

I’m going to post a picture of the job that they did, I couldn’t believe the great work they did.  They started by taking turns using the one shovel.  Then they came up with the idea to use our big broom, one of those push brooms.  So one would use the shovel to break up the ice and snow and the other one would come by after and push the snow.  Then after they had most of the snow off of the driveway, they put salt down to help melt the ice so that they could get the driveway completely snow and ice free!  They also salted her patio for her!  If I were the woman that hired them I would bring them a big tip!

As I write this, they are getting ready to go out and find another customer!  I text my Mom to show her their superb workmanship (picture text) and she’s hiring them to shovel her drive.  I am proud that they took this day to work and be responsible rather than using it to sit around and watch television or play video games.  However, I do have to be truthful and tell you that they did take a break in between jobs and play hockey on the ps2.  In my opinion though… they deserved it!